Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The recent cluster of three high school football deaths brought to the forefront just how unsafe the game is. While the rate of fatal injuries is very low, football remains a dangerous activity. The statistics for the NFL are familiar and striking. In 2013, among 1,696 players there were 225 diagnosed concussions. From 2004-2009, there were over 16,000 recorded injuries, 21 percent of which were considered major. Most striking is the recent prediction by the NFL itself that that it expects one-third of retired players to develop long term neurologic problems related to head injury induced chronic traumatic encephalopathy. A study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and...

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The recent cluster of three high school football deaths brought to the forefront just how unsafe the game is. While the rate of fatal injuries is very low, football remains a dangerous activity. The statistics for the NFL are familiar and striking. In...

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The year just ended brought a number of significant milestones, most of them good, to the area covered by The Record. The highlights include a couple of noteworthy sports accomplishments, completion of a major highway project, the end of a couple of...

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The U.S. Army has concluded that the death of a civilian diver at Aberdeen Proving Ground earlier this year was accidental, according to a report obtained by the Associated Press.
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The Army's Aberdeen Test Center did not contest any of the safety violations cited by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration in connection with the death of a civilian diver at the post's Underwater Test Facility.
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The federal government's workplace safety watchdog has found "serious" violations in the January death of a civilian diver in the underwater testing facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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Now in its 100th year, the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company, founded on June 11, 1913, and one of the oldest in Baltimore County, has grown and changed with the times.
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